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Harddrive ticking
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:25 am
by seneca
Hi
My boss's T60p has a harddrive that periodically ticks, he gets really annoyed about it. Is it a defective drive or can I do some settings to make it go away?
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:33 am
by christopher_wolf
Run a disk checker utility on it as well as the SMART utility and/or PC Doctor, see if they pick anything up. If they do, then give IBM/Lenovo a quick call and they should send out another HDD.
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 3:19 am
by RonS
Boot into Safe Mode and see if it ticks there. If not, it may be a programming running that seeks the hard drive in a particular way that makes a tick.
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:29 am
by Ponch
Or way mor simple: It is a Hitachi, right?
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:19 pm
by christopher_wolf
Ponch wrote:Or way mor simple: It is a Hitachi, right?
If so, you can use the Hitachi Drive Tool to tweak it; although, I have never had any problems with all my Hitachi HDDs.